Grow Your Own Sprouts

Garden without any dirt.

Bagel Felony

This week’s mission: Healthier rice/potato chips and cream cheese–filled bagel cylinders.

Build Your Own Burrito Bar

Bring your local taqueria home, dress it up, and throw it a party.

How to Start Your Own Dive Bar

Be the boss, bouncer, and favorite bartender.

How to Make the Ultimate Bagel

It’s in the boiling and the malt.

Tomatoes Packed in Their Own Juices

Home-canned tomatoes with a hint of basil.

Broccoli Baby Food

If you can boil water, you can make baby food.

Basic Tomato Sauce

Even if you’re a pro, this sauce is a great base on which to riff.

Sweet Potato and Squash Baby Food

A good introduction to the sweet vegetables, this baby food is a pleasing combination of squash and sweet potato.

Asian-y Tofu Scramble

Mushrooms, tofu, and chile-garlic sauce give a savory kick to fluffy eggs.

Kids Making Drinks

Is it wrong to ask minors to mix martinis?

Pancetta and Pepper Pizza

Pancetta and rosemary dress up roasted bell peppers.

Serve Wine, Make Wine

Sommeliers leap from restaurant floor to vineyard.

Basil Digestif

If you love pesto, you’ll adore this after-dinner liqueur.

Is It Wrong to Play with Your Food?

It’s a matter of respect, for your food and your company.